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Spanish Lit Month: Tango for a Torturer by Daniel Chavarría
Tango for a Torturer by Daniel Chavarría (2002) French title: Le rouge sur la plume du perroquet. Translated by Jacques-François Bonaldi. Original Spanish title: El rojo en la pluma del loro.
Tango for a Torturer by Daniel Chavarría is my second read for Spanish Lit Month. I wonder why the English title isn't the exact translation of the original one, like in French. It is actually The red on a parrot's feather. It is a cryptic title but it is explained by the end of the book. I've had this one on the shelf for a while and Spanish Lit Month was a perfect opportunity to read it and contribute to Richard's and Stu's event and add to my #TBR20 project. A way to kill two parrots with one stone.
Aldo Bianchi is an Argentinean from the Italian diaspora in Argentina. He emigrated to Italy during the Argentinean dictatorship and now owns a profitable construction business in Italy. His business brings him to Cuba where he falls in lust with a voluptuous prostitute, Bini. She has a child's mind in a woman's body and Aldo appears to be infatuated. His friends Gonzalo and Aurelia are worried about him. They are also Argentinean and live near Aldo in Italy. They knew his ex-wife and his breakup and they are afraid to see Aldo in the claws of a gold digger who could never adjust to Aldo's life and circle in Italy.
Aurelia organizes Gonzalo's sixtieth birthday party in Cuba. Aldo attends the party with Bini who eventually meets his friends. But more importantly, he gets the confirmation that Alberto Ríos and Triple-O are one person. And Aldo has a score to settle with Triple-O. He wants justice for the past.
Indeed, Triple-O is from Uruguay and he was a sadistic torturer during the Uruguayan dictatorship and then moved his activities to Argentina. He was trained by the CIA and ran a sinister secret prison in Buenos Aires. He was a brutal torturer, taking pleasure in torturing and killing people. He's now hiding in Cuba under a fake identity.
But Aldo recognizes him and will plan his revenge thoroughly to be sure he won't miss him.
Tango for a Torturer unfolds Aldo's plan to frame and catch Triple-O. It is a fantastic crime fiction novel with the reality of the Condor Operation and the Dirty Wars as a background. I only know the basics about the history of Latin America in the 1970s and early 1980s. There were useful footnotes in my paperback and I went to Wikipedia afterwards. Triple-O's activities are true to life. The details are based upon what really happened even if the names are slightly changed. Chavarría is a former Tupamaro, he knows what he's writing about.
The book is focused of Aldo's plan but there are also a lot of descriptions of Triple-O's life under his Alberto Ríos identity. When you know exactly the extent of Triple-O's horrific actions, it is unsettling to see him live a normal life. He's not remorseful at all and he lives a comfortable life out of the money he stole from his victims. All he cares about is being safe and healthy. He knows hitmen are after him for his past but he feels safe in Cuba and enjoys himself. On the contrary, Aldo stills suffers from the aftermath of the torture. He's successful and rich but never recovered from his past. And honestly, how could he? And this difference in their peace of mind points out the injustice of it all or maybe just shows who's the better human.
I read that Tango for a Torturer has the same frame as Le Comte de Monte Cristo, a book that Chavarría admires. I didn't notice it, probably because Cuba is so far away from France that it never occurred to me to look for a French reference. But the two books do have similar storylines.
It could have been a bleak book but it's not, probably because it is set in Cuba and the setting breathes life into the story. It prevents the book from becoming only a man hunt and a cold revenge. Bini's character and her family bring Cuba into the plot. Bini is a bit of a scatterbrain. She loves to drive even if she doesn't have a license and she has her way to make men lend her the wheel. She's full of life, with no education or manners. She's dirty poor, her parents didn't give a damn about her and she had to fend for herself from a very young age. She enjoys sex, goes after men, after what she wants. She's also very religious and Chavarría gives details about religious beliefs in Cuba. He also describes the landscape, the climate and Havana. All this contributes to turn the book into something more than a classic crime fiction novel.
This is a tremendous read. The plot is well-constructed, it's educational, lively and it has a purpose. It made me want to read about the Dirty Wars and know more about what happened. It also means that here, in the pages of this crime novel, lies a memorial to all the innocent people who died and disappeared under these brutal dictatorships.
I owe this one to Guy (again!) and his review is here.
PS: This is the second time this year that I read a book linked to Argentina's history. The other one was Three Horses by Erri de Luca.
Spanish Lit Month: Exemplary crimes by Max Aub
Exemplary Crimes by Max Aub. (1956) Original Spanish title: Crímenes ejemplares. French title: Crimes exemplaires. (Translated by Danièle Guibbert.)
|Après, ici, n'importe quel malheureux petit mort, ils l'appellent cadavre.
|But then here, any tiny little dead body, they call it a stiff.
This is my first participation to Spanish Lit Month organized by Richard and Stu. I started with Exemplary Crimes by Max Aub.
Max Aub was born in 1903. His mother was French and his father German but he adopted the Spanish language when his family moved to Valencia in 1914. After the Spanish Civil War, he moved to Mexico where he remained until his death in 1972. He worked as a salesman, he was the one who ordered Guernica to Picasso for the Republican Government and worked with André Malraux. Among other things.
Exemplary Crimes is a Literary UFO, one of those books that don't belong to a pre-defined category. In France, it won the Grand Prix de l'Humour Noir in 1981 and that says a lot about it. It is a cultural and literary prize created in 1957 that rewards works of black humour. Raymond Queneau used to be in the jury and my dear Quino also won it in 1981, in the Comics category.
So what is Exemplary Crimes exactly? It is a collection of 130 assassinations, all done in good faith according to their perpetrator. Each is described by a phrase, a paragraph or a page maximum. Each is the confession of the murderer who tells how or why they killed their victim. They all have what they consider a good justification for their deed. They don't feel guilty or they try to convince themselves that their victim deserved it. Sometimes it's written in a very candid tone:
|Je l'ai d'abord tué en rêve, ensuite je n'ai pu m'empêcher de le faire vraiment. C'était inévitable.
|I first killed him in my dreams and then I couldn't help myself, I killed him for real. It was inevitable.
It can be almost poetic in its twisted way…
|– Plutôt mourir! me dit-elle. Et dire que ce que je voulais par-dessus tout, c'était lui faire plaisir.
|I'd rather die, she said. And me, I wanted to please her above all.
Or sometimes they're totally unapologetic in front of an imaginary jury at their trial:
|Qu'est-ce qu'ils veulent de plus ? Il était accroupi. Il me présentait ses arrières d'une manière si ridicule et il était à ma portée de manière si parfaite que je n'ai pu résister à la tentation de le pousser.
|What more do they want? He was crouched. He presented me with his rear-end with such a ridiculous manner and he was within my reach so perfectly that I couldn't resist the temptation to push him.
Indeed, what is there to understand? Isn't that obvious to anyone? Others will show you that there was no other way out. Their victim called it upon themselves.
|Pourquoi essayer de le convaincre ? C'était un sectaire de la pire espèce, comme s'il se prenait pour Dieu le Père. Il avait la cervelle bouchée. Je la lui ai ouverte d'un seul coup, pour lui faire voir comment on apprend à discuter. Que celui qui ne sait pas se taise.
|Why try to convince him? He was a sectarian of the worst species, as if he were God himself. His brain was clogged up. I opened it for him all at once, just to teach him how to talk things out. Ignorant people should shut up.
Oh the irony. Some try to be rational…
|Il m'avait mis un morceau de glace dans le dos. Le moins que je puisse faire était de le refroidir.
|He had put an ice cube in my back. The least I could do was to ice him off.
…or to explain how exasperated they were when they committed their crime. They try to show how their victim pushed them over the edge with their obnoxious behaviour.
|Et jusque dans la salle de bains : et ci et ça et autre chose. Je lui ai enfoncé la serviette dans la bouche pour qu'elle se taise. Elle n'est pas morte de ça, mais de ne plus pouvoir parler: les paroles ont éclaté à l'intérieur.
|And even in the bathroom: and this and that and blah blah blah. I shoved a towel down her throat to shut her up. She didn't die from this but from not being able to talk anymore. The words burst inside of her.
Some premeditated their crime and regret more getting caught than killing someone. I loved this one, it reminded me of Olivier Norek, a French crime fiction writer who is also a police officer.
|Je l'ai empoisonné parce que je voulais son siège à l'Académie. Je ne pensais pas qu'on le découvrirait. Mais il y a eu ce romancier de merde et qui de surcroît est commissaire de police.
|I poisoned him because I wanted his chair at the Academy. I didn't think they would find out. But there was this crappy novelist who's also a superintendent.
Imagine the investigation in the corridors of the Academy and the crime investigator turned writer who unearths a crime in a community who supposed to be very civilized.
I read Exemplary Crimes during the football UEFA Euro 2016 in France and I couldn't help chuckling when I read this one:
|C'était comme si c'était fait ! Il n'y avait qu'à pousser le ballon, avec ce gardien de but qui n'était pas à sa place…Et il l'a envoyé par-dessus le filet ! Et ce but était décisif ! Nous nous foutions complètement de ces putains de minables de la Nopalera. Si le coup de pied que je lui ai balancé l'a envoyé dans l'autre monde, qu'il apprenne au moins à shooter comme Dieu le demande.
|It was almost done! He just had to push the ball, with this goalie who wasn't in his place…And he sent it over the net! And this was a decisive goal! We didn't give a damn of these bloody losers from Nopalera. If the kick I threw his way sent him into the other world, let him learn how to shoot as God requires.
Thankfully, I don't think any football player met the same fate during the competition. I also thought about all the guns circulating in the USA when I read this short one:
|Je l'ai tué parce que j'avais un révolver. J'avais tant de plaisir à le tenir dans ma main !
|I killed him because I had a gun. I had so much pleasure holding it!
A last one. A husband was killed because he broke the household's precious soup tureen.
|Je ne l'ai pas fait avec le pic à glace. Monsieur, non, je l'ai fait avec le fer à repasser.
|I didn't do it with the ice pick. No Sir, I did it with the flatiron.
We're far from glamourous Sharon Stone and her Basic Instincts. We're closer to shrew territory or to Susanita's mother in Quino's comic strip at best. Plus soup was involved, which brings me back to Quino too.
I had a lot of fun reading this and I highly recommend it as a summer read. For French readers, it's like reading a book by Desproges. For English speaking readers, I'm sorry to report that it is not available in English. Another Translation Tragedy. However, the texts are short and it can be a good way to practice your French or your Spanish if you feel like it.
PS: I did the English translations the best I could. I hope they reflec the tone of the original.
Rendezvous in Venice by Philippe Beaussant
Rendezvous in Venice by Philippe Beaussant. (2003) Original French title: Le Rendez-vous de Venise.
In Rendezvous in Venice, Philippe Beaussant tells a story about art, about family and transmission, about mentoring and love. The first part of this billet is without spoilers and the second part explores the novella a bit farther but includes spoilers.
Part I
Pierre stumbles upon his dead uncle's notebook. Uncle Charles was his mentor as an art historian and Pierre was his assistant during the last fifteen years heard of Charles' life. He thought he knew everything about him. Charles was a bachelor, he appreciated women as works of art but never really as flesh and blood people. Or so Pierre thought. Reading through the notebook, he realizes that a long time ago his uncle had a passionate love affair with a younger woman named Judith, that this love story had its turning point in Venice.
Pierre is stunned. He never knew this side of Charles and he starts wondering whether he knew him at all. Pierre is also involved in art as an academic. He learnt everything from Charles, who was well-known in their academic world. He inherited Charles house and lives there with his old servant. The décor remained untouched. The memories of Charles were to remain untouched and this notebook upsets their careful order.
Rendezvous in Venice is a wonderful little book that masterfully mixes personal stories and art. As Pierre remembers Charles, he brings back their discussions about art and portraits of the Italian Renaissance. It is told with the words of a man who loves paintings and painters, who wants to share his passion with people beyond his inner circles of scholars. And I love academics who reach out to the masses who don't have their erudition and will never have it but are still capable of finding beauty in a painting by Botticelli. Several portraits are mentioned in the novella, all with a heady mix of reverence and familiarity.
There's a Proustian atmosphere to Rendezvous in Venice. Anyone who loves In Search of Lost Time will love it too. I will explore this side of the novella in the second part of this billet. The open reference to Proust could be irritating but it's not. It is done with fondness. It is made of the same deep knowledge and feeling as the references to paintings that I mentioned earlier.
Beaussant knew these paintings and books so well that he could interlink them with his own story without it being awkward. It is made to share something wonderful and not to show off academic knowledge. Rendezvous in Venice is written by someone who wants to uplift you with their knowledge and not put you down with your lack of education.
This is a book to read after a visit to the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris. This museum was the mansion of a rich couple who were passionate about art, and especially about the Italian Renaissance. The museum displays their collection, in their house and their apartments are furnished for the visitors to see. The mansion is Boulevard Haussmann, not far from where Marcel Proust used to live.
I heard about Rendezvous in Venice on Jacqui's blog and you can find her review here. Thanks Jacqui, I owe you one. It was a delight.
Part II.
For readers who have read In Search of Lost Time, you will feel Proust at every corner while reading Rendezvous in Venice. The choice of Venice is not a coincidence. If it were just about Renaissance paintings, Florence would have been more appropriate. Venice is a key place for the Narrator in Proust, one he dreams about a lot.
Then, there's Charles, the uncle who has the same name as Charles Swann. Swann and Odette's story is told in Swann's Way. The reader discovers Swann, passionate with paintings and art, seeing in Odette the features of a woman in an old portrait. Uncle Charles also sees Judith that way. Both Charles seem to have the same perfect manners of cultured people.
Page 50 of my edition we are reading extracts of Charles's notebook and he mentions his memory, the way he plays with names related to Judith in his head. Her way of speaking is compared to a sonata. (J'en dégustais le son, comme on écoute une sonate. or in English, I tasted their sound as one listens to a sonata.) In The Guermantes Way, Proust plays with names of places and people. The Vinteuil sonata is also a pattern through In Search of Lost Time but plays an important role in Swann's love for Odette.
Page 52, Charles describes in his notebook his attempts at bringing back Judith in his memories. The way he describes his quest is a lot alike Proust's. It is a way to concentrate in yourself and remember. It is a lot like the passages after the death of the Narrator's grand-mother or the grief after Albertine's death. Uncle Charles grieves the death of his relationship with Judith.
A few pages later, Uncle Charles says J'ai compris que notre amour était mortel. (I understood that our love was mortal) which is exactly what happens with Charles in Swann's Way. Both Charles understand that art is immortal and human love is mortal. They just choose a different path. Swann marries Odette and they have a daughter, Gilberte. Uncle Charles breaks up with Judith after she tells him that she wants a child with him. Judith marries someone else and has a daughter with him, Sarah. If we go further, the love story of the next generation also goes the other way. The Narrator falls in love with Gilberte but nothing comes out of it. Pierre falls in love with Sarah and they have a child together.
And page 80, in the middle of Charles's notebooks, there it is, the open reference to Proust. The Narrator had dreamed of Venice. The volume Albertine disparue is the one that matches with the tone of Uncle Charles's notebooks. In this volume, the Narrator mourns Albertine's death and his lost love and he finally goes to Venice. Uncle Charles has to write about Judith, still mourning their relationship.
Pierre inherited of Uncle Charles's house and Sarah moves in for a while. Mariette disapprove of the disruption. Sarah is impulsive, different from Pierre. Françoise didn't like Albertine and hated that she moved in with the Narrator. When Sarah leaves Pierre, Mariette will say:
|Mademoiselle Sarah…Son placard est ouvert…Il est vide. Elle a emporté ses affaires? Elle est partie?
|Miss Sarah…Her dresser is open…It's empty. She took her things? She left?
Albertine Gone opens with Françoise exclaiming Mademoiselle Albertine est partie! (Miss Albertine is gone) Let's face it, both servants are happy to see the intruder leave.
The whole novella breathes Proust. Swann and the Narrator's love for art. Mariette, Uncle Charles's old servant who sounds exactly like Françoise. Uncle Charles is very ill and bedridden for the last years of his life but still continues to work as an art historian like Proust himself who finished In Search of Lost Time in bed.
There are probably other references that I missed but I shared the ones I noticed with you.
The Sermon on the Fall of Rome by Jérôme Ferrari
The Sermon on the Fall of Rome by Jérôme Ferrari (2012) Original French title: Le Sermon sur la chute de Rome.
Matthieu Antonetti lives in Paris with his mother and visits her side of the family in a small village in Corsica for the holidays. Libero Pintus lives in this village. The two boys are the same age and become best friends. Matthieu would love to live in Corsica. After high school, they both start studying philosophy at the Sorbonne. When they learn that the café in their beloved Corsican village is for rent, they decide to drop out of university and run it. The Sermon on the Fall of Rome relates Matthieu's family history, his personal story and his adventure with running the café with his best friend. Parallel to Matthieu's story, we read about Matthieu's grand-father's life. Marcek worked in Africa in the French colonies. Telling Marcel's life is a way to relate the fall of the French colonial empire.
Part of the novel is probably based upon Ferrari's personal life. He comes from Corsica, he studied philosophy in La Sorbonne, he ran a philosophical café in Corsica and he was a teacher in Algier.
It is objectively a great idea for a book. And Matthieu's story, the portrait of his family, the description of life in Corsica would have been a great novel. Something like Le Soleil des Scorta by Laurent Gaudé. Where a regular novelist would probably have limited themselves to telling a story, Ferrari had to brew a literary café with a philosophical flavor. The philosopher du jour is Saint Augustine. Perhaps Ferrari dreamt that Saint Augustine was alive as you or me and it gave him literary inspiration. Who knows?
So here we are with Saint Augustine who wrote Sermon on the fall of Rome. And…*nudge nudge and eye roll*…look at the book's title! And, guess what, the titles of the chapters come from… The City of God by Saint Augustine! And the icing on the fiadone, the last chapter is the actual sermon. Yippee!
There's probably a highbrow explanation as to how Saint Augustine's point on the fall of the Roman empire has something to do with the rise and fall of a non-philosophical café in Corsica. I'm sure that literate readers see it right away, this brilliant analogy and all. At least, the jury of the Prix Goncourt did. The Sermon on the Fall of Rome won the prestigious prize in 2012.
But poor old common-reader me closed the book thinking "These highbrow French writers, they always have to intellectualize everything." It feels as if writing a good novel that "just" tells a good story with well-drawn characters is not enough to take them to the pedestal of being un écrivain. Well, for me it's enough.
You might wonder why I bought it. I had faith in the publisher, Actes Sud and the blurb led me to imagine that the title of the book was more a whim than actually referring to Saint Augustine that way. My mistake I guess.
Unsurprisingly given all the books in translation he reads, Stu from Winston's Dad has read and reviewed it. You can find his much more positive review here.
PS: a fiadone is a classic Corsican cake.
The Sea Wall by Marguerite Duras
The Sea Wall by Marguerite Duras (1950) Original French title: Un barrage contre le Pacifique
The Sea Wall by Marguerite Duras is semiautobiographical novel. Duras was born in Indochina, near Saïgon in 1914. Indochina was a French colony then. She left Indochina in 1931 to come back to France.
The Sea Wall is the story of an unnamed mother (in the whole book, she's called la mère) and her two grownup children, Joseph and Suzanne. The husband and father died a long time ago, leaving his family behind without a source of income. The mother put food on the table by playing the piano in a local cinema. She saved money to buy a concession, land allocated by the French authorities to settlers. She put all her savings in it and the land proved to be impossible to cultivate because it is flooded by the ocean every year. The local French authorities knew it. Several families had already been allocated this piece of land and each of them was evicted because they couldn't pay their debts anymore. The Sea Wall denounces the corruption of the French civil servants sent there. They exploited the ignorance of settlers, making them pay higher than the market for bare land and then evicted the families without a second thought when they could cultivate the land and pay their debts.
So this family is stuck on their "property". The mother is embittered by their situation. She tried to build a sea wall to contain the Pacific and make things grow behind the wall. But of course the ocean was stronger. The children are left with no future. The property is a rotten place, they are bored to death but it's all they have. Leaving would mean abandoning the mother's dreams. It would mean giving up. It would crush her even more. She's a central character in the novel, a tyrannical figure who controls her universe and her children. She's abusive, physically and verbally. Joseph is stronger than her now and she doesn't dare touching him. But Suzanne, younger and weaker, is a prey.
They barely survive on this desolated land. The days go on and Suzanne is waiting. She's dreaming of a car who would come with a man in it. She dreams of escaping this place through marriage. And the mother is ready to sell her for fresh cash.
When Monsieur Jo notices Suzanne and starts courting her, her mother sees a moneybag ready to spend cash on her daughter. She pilots Suzanne, ordering her around, asking her to request gifts and most of all forbidding her to sleep with Monsieur Jo without a ring on her finger.
Suzanne obeys but reluctantly. Like the girl in The Lover, she tries to distance herself from the scene. Joseph observes her dealings with Monsieur Jo, torn between jealousy, disgust and blind obedience to the mother.
They make a sick trio, really. I pitied Suzanne. She's stuck on a dead-end property. Her beauty is her asset. She doesn't have access to a proper education and marriage resembles more to legal prostitution than to the union of two people in love. And yet, she's ready to settle for so little. She's so disillusioned already.
Joseph loves hunting, loves his guns and he has a rather fusional relationship with Suzanne. It felt almost incestuous to me.
The Sea Wall is a great piece of literature on several accounts. Duras did an amazing job on characterization. The way the three main characters are depicted, the way they interact and leave some imprint on you. These are characters you don't forget. You can picture them in the flesh.
The descriptions of Indochina are also fantastic. The landscapes, the people, Saïgon. It's so vivid. She mentions the Indo-Chinese and their way of living. They're dirty poor, with a lot of children who hardly survive. The climate is unforgiving and the land is not rich enough to feed all these humans.
I found the descriptions of the workings of the colony fascinating. On the one hand, I wondered at the mother's naïveté. How could she think about becoming a farmer without a single hint of how to do it? She was a primary school teacher and then a pianist, for heaven's sake! How could she be stupid enough to think she could build a sea wall without construction skills? On the other hand, I was horrified to see how men from the French administration took advantage of her. She might have been a silly fool but they were the con men who made her buy this concession.
The Sea Wall was published in 1950 during the Indochina war. (1946-1954) Her novel was nominated for the Goncourt prize but it was given to Paul Colin for Les jeux sauvages. I've never heard of this book or this writer. Time made its choice. The Sea Wall is excellent literature, one of my best read of the year, one I highly recommend if you haven't read it yet.
For another review, have a look at Guy's outstanding take on this gem of literature.
PS: As you can see it from the second cover of the novel, The Sea Wall was recently made into a film. I haven't seen it, so I can't tell you whether it's good or not. I'm just surprised to see Isabelle Huppert cast as the mother. She looks thin and regal on this picture. And the mother is worn out. I could picture Yolande Moreau playing the mother. She has the physique and the intensity to incarnate this character. I suppose Yolande Moreau is less bankable than Isabelle Huppert. So, after being a redheaded Madame Bovary (a heresy in itself), she's now a classy woman from the colonies in lieu of a woman who's at the end of her rope. Sad.
All That Is by James Salter. Much ado about nothing
All That Is by James Salter (2013) French title: Et rien d'autre. Translated by Marc Amfreville
This blog is my reading journal and I'm committed to write about the books I loved but also the ones I abandoned. So, here's another negative billet that I'll keep short because I have a backlog of billets about books I actually loved. And my blogging time is limited…
I had some expectations about All That Is by James Salter, given the fuss around this book. I guess that from a literary point of view, the title is really apt.
To be honest, the blurb is appealing. We're at the end of WWII and Philip Bowman, a young man has come back from the war in the Pacific. He goes to Harvard and ends up working for a publisher in New York. The novel is about his life. Simple enough. The blurb of the French edition says:
This beautiful novel is like a testimony of a generation of writers, last witnesses, without their knowing, of a world promised to disappear. Because art is the only place where opposites live side by side without destroying each other, it ties in a single gesture the lust for life of youth and the melancholy of maturity, frantic eroticism and need of sooth, the quest for fame and the acute awareness of its insignificance.
Sounds good, no? How disappointed I was. I found Bowman's story lacking of depth. The novel sits on the middle of a bridge between the shore of State of the Nation literature and State of the Self literature. I waited for an analysis of the American society of that time. I waited for a description of Bowman's thoughts and feelings. I tried until page 129 out of 364. The novel feels scattered. Each time I start to get attached to a character, the focus shifts on someone else and I think, "Hey, I want to know what happens next!" There's no description of the publishing world beyond brushes that left me thirsty for more. During these 129 pages, I was waiting for substance and depth: get into the mind of the character or write us a fresco of New York in the 50s. It wasn't coming.
Then I stumbled upon Lisa's review of All That Is on Goodreads and discovered that she hated it for the same reasons I couldn't engage with it. Her review is worth reading. So I saved myself a few hours of reading and abandoned it. So, thanks, Lisa.
To me That Is All.
PS: That cover! *exasperated eye-roll*
Three Horses by Erri De Luca
Three Horses by Erri De Luca (1999) French title: Trois chevaux. (Translated from the Italian by Danièle Valin.)
|Une vie d'homme dure autant que celle de trois chevaux.
|A man's life lasts as long three horses' lives.
Three Horses is a novella by the Italian writer Erri De Luca. The book opens with a foreword about Argentina to remind the reader of its geography and of few facts about its recent history. Argentina welcomed 7 million of immigrants before 1939 and half of them were Italian. From 1976 to 1982, it was governed by a lethal military dictatorship and 40 000 persons went missing. It ended in 1982 when they failed to invade the Falkland Islands, a territory under British rule and as big as half of Sicily.
The narrator is a fifty years old man who works as a gardener for an old friend. After the introduction, we know that the narrator something to do with Argentina. He's a quiet and literate man who keeps to himself. He's contemplative and seeks solace in books. It's clear from the start that he wants a quiet life made of physical labor, simple food and lots of reading. We slowly learn about his past, discovering how he ended up as a meditative gardener. He's Italian and fell in love with an Argentinean woman, Dvora. He followed her to Buenos Aires and married her. They settled there and were caught up by history; Dvora was killed during the dictatorship and he survived.
The narrator's past, his beliefs and his personality slowly come to life through delicate sentences. He enjoys nurturing plants and takes pleasure in gardening. He befriends other lonely souls and immigrants and meets Làila who brings Argentina back into his life.
|Elle ne s'efface pas de mon corps, l'Argentine, peu de poils ont repoussé sur l'ulcère de la guerre et des assassins.
|Argentina cannot be erased of my body. Little hair has grown on the ulcer of war and murderers.
He's a survivor from grief and violence. He's not healed and still lives in a survivor mode. It's difficult to go further in describing the narrator's life or his state of mind without spoiling the novel. So I'll leave it at that.
It is a slim novel written in a luminous and poetic prose. I have a lot of quotes, all due to De Luca's unique way with words. Here's the narrator walking in the wilderness…
|J'apprends à ne pas craindre les serpents, des bêtes sages qui lèchent l'air.
I learn not to be afraid of snakes, these wise beasts who lick the air.
…or waking up in his apartment
|Oui, je me lève à cinq heures, mais volontiers. L'air de la mer fait parvenir ici un peu de son odeur.
La maison craque à cette heure-là, pierre, bois, bâillements. Puis elle se tait au parfum du café. Une cafetière sur le feu suffit à remplir une pièce.
|Yes, I wake up at five a.m. but willingly. The air coming from the sea brings a bit of its scent here.
The house creaks at this hour, stone, wood and yawns. Then it goes quiet with the perfume of coffee. A coffeepot on the stove is enough to fill a room.
I could picture his early mornings in a waking house.
Three Horses is a deeply Mediterranean book. The narrator is in osmosis with his environment and he's like a living part of the scenery. The setting is almost a character in the novella. The sun, the sea, laundry pouring out of windows and basil in pots. De Luca's writing appeals to all the reader's senses. It brought back memories of holidays in Sicily, on the French Riviera or in Greece. The scent of the sea is like an olfactory background melody. The sun heats up the vegetation and makes it exhale puffs of perfumes. Pine trees, wisteria or rosemary. De Luca makes you feel the sea breeze on your skin and the burning heat of the sun at noon. The reader hears the soothing sound of the waves and the cries of seagulls. The narrator cooks and it reminds you the taste of fresh tomatoes, olive oil and smooth cheese. Each time I'm in a Mediterranean region, I feel content. Each time I read a book set somewhere near the Mediterranean Sea, I long to be there with the characters. This one is no different with its powerful sense of place. I also enjoyed the slow pace of the narrator's life, so far from my own.
Above all, I loved the narrator's relationship with literature and books. Literature plays a central role in his life and I could relate to it.
|Les jours se passent comme ça. Le soir, chez moi, j'écrase des tomates crues et de l'origan sur des pâtes égouttées et je grignote des gousses d'ail devant un livre russe. Il rend mon corps plus léger.
C'est ce que doivent faire les livres, porter une personne et non pas se faire porter par elle, décharger la journée de son dos, ne pas ajouter leurs propres grammes de papier sur ses vertèbres.
|Days go on like this. Home at night, I mash raw tomatoes and oregano on freshly drained pasta and I nibble cloves of garlic in front of a Russian book. It makes my body lighter.
That's what books are for. They should carry a person, not be carried by them. They should take the day's load off one's back, not add grams of paper on one's vertebras.
Isn't that the best thing after a long day? To unload the day's thoughts and events on the wharf of a book cover and to sail away to the wind of a writer's prose?
He also made me question my relationship with physical books.
|Je lis des vieux livres parce que les pages tournées de nombreuses fois et marquées par les doigts ont plus de poids pour les yeux, parce que chaque exemplaire de livre peut appartenir à plusieurs vies. Les livres devraient rester sans surveillance dans les endroits publics pour se déplacer avec les passants qui les emporteraient un moment avec eux, puis ils devraient mourir comme eux, usés par les malheurs, contaminés, noyés en tombant d'un pont avec les suicidés, fourrés dans un poêle l'hiver, déchirés par les enfants pour en faire des petits bateaux, bref ils devraient mourir n'importe comment sauf d'ennui et de propriété privée, condamnés à vie à l'étagère.
|I read used books because pages turned many times and branded by fingers have more weight to the eyes, because each copy of a book can belong to several lives. Books should stay unattended in public places to move around with passersby who would take them for a while. And then they should die like people, used by tragedies, contaminated, drowned after falling off bridges with people who committed suicide, stuffed in a woodstove in winter, torn apart by children to make paper boats. In other words, books should die of anything but boredom and private property or condemned to serve a life sentence on a shelf.
Thought provoking, huh? Why do I keep all my books? Is it selfish to keep them on the shelf instead of giving them away? Most of them I will never read again anyway. Food for future thoughts.
Three Horses is a slim novel laced with the horrors of war, a man who still look for a way to live and thinks that literature is a wonderful crutch. Highly recommended.
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A simple method for imagingultrasonic fields in clear media is introduced. A modulated laser source is used to project the ultrasonic field onto a CCDcamera. By use of the source-synchronized lock-in detection scheme, 2D images of the amplitude and phase distributions can be determined simultaneously. This technique is experimentally demonstrated with a 1-MHz and a 3.5-MHz ultrasonic transducer operated in continuous-wave mode. This method is very straightforward to implement and can be combined with the traditional tomographic reconstruction technique to obtain the 3D distribution of an ultrasonic field.
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Reviews Of Acoustical Patents106(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.427895View Description Hide Description
The purpose of these acoustical patent reviews is to provide enough information for a Journal reader to decide whether to seek more information from the patent itself. Any opinions expressed here are those of the reviewers as individuals and are not legal opinions. Printed copies of United States Patents may be ordered at $3.00 each from the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks, Washington, DC 20231. Patents are available via the Internet at http://www.uspto.gov.
Sound or Ultrasound Sensor106(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.427901View Description Hide Description
The precedence effect106(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.427914View Description Hide Description
In a reverberant environment, sounds reach the ears through several paths. Although the direct sound is followed by multiple reflections, which would be audible in isolation, the first-arriving wavefront dominates many aspects of perception. The "precedence effect" refers to a group of phenomena that are thought to be involved in resolving competition for perception and localization between a direct sound and a reflection. This article is divided into five major sections. First, it begins with a review of recent work on psychoacoustics, which divides the phenomena into measurements of fusion, localization dominance, and discrimination suppression. Second, buildup of precedence and breakdown of precedence are discussed. Third measurements in several animal species, developmental changes in humans, and animal studies are described. Fourth, recent physiological measurements that might be helpful in providing a fuller understanding of precedence effects are reviewed. Fifth, a number of psychophysicalmodels are described which illustrate fundamentally different approaches and have distinct advantages and disadvantages. The purpose of this review is to provide a framework within which to describe the effects of precedence and to help in the integration of data from both psychophysical and physiological experiments. It is probably only through the combined efforts of these fields that a full theory of precedence will evolve and useful models will be developed.
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Errors due to sensor and position mismatch in planar acoustic holography106(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.427915View Description Hide Description
There are many sources of measurement errors when one attempts to construct a hologram of near-field acoustic holography. These errors are amplified when predicting pressure at a point which is located near an acoustic source. Errors due to a sensor mismatch and an inaccurate measurement location, or position mismatch, are the main interests of this study. We theoreticallymeasure the errors in terms of their probabilities, bias, and random error. Analysis in a wave number domain shows that the bias error can be regarded as negligible, but the random error is significant in a backward prediction. The random error is suggested to be measured in terms of random error energy. Then, the amplification ratio of the random error energy is related to measurement spacing on a hologram plane, prediction spacing on a prediction plane, and the distance between the hologram and prediction plane.
A new approach to reflection-transmission between viscoelastic half-spaces106(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.427916View Description Hide Description
Reflection and transmission of time-harmonic waves at the welded boundary between linear, viscoelastic, isotropic half-spaces is examined. A basis consisting of inhomogeneous waves is considered, for wave fields obeying Snell's law; the basis elements are parameterized by the component of the wave vector parallel to the interface; incident and reflected-transmitted waves are expressed as superpositions of incoming and outgoing inhomogeneous waves. The characterization of incoming and outgoing inhomogeneous waves through the phase, the amplitude, and the mean energy intensity is shown to provide nonequivalent mathematical models for reflection and transmission. On the basis of the general properties of the energy flux, the energy criterion is regarded as the appropriate one. The resulting approach is developed in connection with the reflection-transmission process. In particular, the incoming or outgoing character of any inhomogeneous wave is shown to depend on In correspondence with such a dependence, jump discontinuities of the reflection and transmission coefficients are shown to occur.
Backscattering enhancements due to reflection of meridional leaky Rayleigh waves at the blunt truncation of a tilted solid cylinder in water: Observations and theory106(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.427917View Description Hide Description
Leaky surface waves once launched on an elastic object in water will undergo partial reflection at the truncations of the object. Under certain conditions, such reflections can radiate locally flat acoustic wavefronts with a reversal of the acoustic wave vector, and thus a large backscattered signal is produced. A stainless-steel circular rod with flat ends was ensonified through an angular region appropriate for launching meridional Rayleigh waves, and the resulting backscattering enhancement is consistent with the hypothesized end-reflection process. The observed backscattering peak is in general agreement with predictions from a convolution formulation [P. L. Marston, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 102, 358–369 (1997)]. The tilt of the cylinder was varied to explore the peak's width, and the results are consistent with an extension of the theory for the dephasing of the Rayleigh wave given here. The amplitude measurements used ultrasonic tone bursts having ka of 50 and 83, and the enhancement is predicted to be significant over a wide range of ka.
An acoustic model of a laminar sand bed106(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.427918View Description Hide Description
It was postulated that a laminar sand bed may be modeled as an ensemble of randomly layered Biot media. The thickness of each layer was approximately half a grain diameter. The porosity variations in the vertical direction were matched to the mean and standard deviation of that of a structure of packed spherical grains. The effect of large-scale lateral variations in porosity was simulated by performing a coherent ensemble average of the acoustic output from several realizations of the randomly layered medium. The medium parameters were chosen to represent water-saturated sand. Specifically, the sand bed was modeled as bounded by a homogeneous water halfspace above, and a homogeneous poroelastic halfspace of equal average porosity below. Reflected and transmitted signals were computed. Coherent and random components of the reflected signal were calculated. The coherent parts were directly related to the reflected and the transmitted waves. Results showed significant differences between the modeled sand bed and an equivalent uniform Biot medium. In the modeled sand bed, the fast wave attenuation was found to be anisotropic, and a propagating slow wave was excited at most incident angles, except at normal incidence, which may explain the apparent failure to detect the slow wave of certain experiments.
On the phase speed and attenuation of an interface wave in an unconsolidated marine sediment106(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.428049View Description Hide Description
The phase speed and attenuation of the interface wave at the seawater–sediment boundary are obtained by solving the characteristic equation for one of its complex roots. The characteristic equation itself is derived on the basis of a recently developed theory of wave propagation in porous media. Central to the theory is the stress relaxation that occurs when mineral grains slide against one another during the passage of a seismic wave. This type of stress relaxation is characterized by material response functions for compressional and shear waves of the form where t is time since the sliding began and n is a small positive number. The phase speed of the interface wave relative to that of the shear wave depends weakly on the grain size, increasing from about 85% for fine-grained silts and clays to 90% for coarse sands. The loss tangent of the interface wave, is found to be independent of the mechanical properties (grain size, porosity, and density) of the sediment, and is the same as that for the shear wave: Since the loss tangent and phase speed are, in effect, independent of frequency, the attenuation coefficient of the interface wave scales as the first power of frequency. It turns out that the characteristic equation for the interface wave, as derived from the intergranular stress-relaxation mechanism, is exactly the same as if the sediment had been treated as an elastic solid. However, the elastic description fails to account for the grain-size dependencies exhibited by the compressional and shear waves. These dependencies emerge naturally from the stress-relaxation model.
Applications of waveguide-type base functions for the eigenproblems of two-dimensional cavities106(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.427919View Description Hide Description
An acoustic modal analysis technique useful for two-dimensional cavities of general shapes is developed as an extension of the technique developed earlier by Kim and Kang [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 99, 2938–2946 (1996)] for the modal analysis of convex membranes. Both Neumann and Dirichlet problems can be solved with the present choice of cosinusoidally varying waveguide-type functions instead of sinusoidally varying waveguide-type functions adopted earlier [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 99, 2938–2946 (1996)]. A cavity subdivision technique for general nonconvex cavities overcomes the limitation of the earlier technique useful only for convex cavities. Successful applications of the present technique are demonstrated in some practical two-dimensional cavity problems. The present technique is potentially a very efficient technique in handling higher eigenmodes.
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Nonlinear Stoneley and Scholte waves106(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.427920View Description Hide Description
Spectral evolution equations are derived for plane, progressive, finite-amplitude Stoneley and Scholte waves that propagate along plane interfaces formed by two semi-infinite, isotropic media in contact. The evolution equations have mathematical forms identical to those obtained previously for Rayleigh waves [E. A. Zabolotskaya, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 91, 2569–2575 (1992)], and they are expressed explicitly in terms of the second- and third-order elastic constants of the media. Calculations were performed to simulate nonlinear surface wave propagation in several pairs of real media. Harmonic generation and shock formation associated with the Stoneley and Scholte modes are compared with the corresponding processes in Rayleigh waves. Waveform distortion is shown to be very similar for the three types of surface waves when the propagation distance is normalized by an appropriate shock formation distance.
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The stabilized self-starter106(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.427921View Description Hide Description
A stability problem is eliminated from the self-starter, which is a parabolic equation technique for generating initial conditions. The stability problem is associated with evanescent modes that correspond to nearly vertical propagation. It causes the solution to break down at certain frequencies for problems involving relatively low attenuation. The error is restricted to relatively short ranges unless the medium is strongly range dependent near the source. The stability problem is eliminated by placing the pole of the smoothing operator in the self-starter away from the eigenvalues of the depth operator.
An efficient parabolic equation solution based on the method of undetermined coefficients106(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.427922View Description Hide Description
An implementation of the self-starter based on the method of undetermined coefficients is described and tested. For many problems, this parabolic equation technique for solving short range propagation problems provides an efficiency gain of an order of magnitude or more over the finite difference solution. With this forward model, it is possible to solve geoacoustic inverse problems in seconds on the current generation of desktop computers. The approach can be implemented for the inverse problem so that efficiency is essentially independent of the depth of the water column.
A phase-compensated distorted wave Born approximation representation of the bistatic scattering by weakly scattering objects: Application to zooplankton106(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.428036View Description Hide Description
The distorted wave Born approximation (DWBA) method has been successfully used in modeling the acoustic backscattering by weakly scatteringzooplankton [Stanton et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 94, 3463–3472 (1993), Wiebe et al., IEEE J. Ocean. Eng. 22(3), 445–464 (1997)]. However, the previously developed DWBA model ignores the imaginary part of the scattering amplitude and thus results in a zero-extinction cross section. As a consequence, the model fails to predict the scattering-inducedattenuation which could be important under certain circumstances. In this paper, a phase-compensated DWBA-based approximation is presented. The improved method allows us to compute not only the scattering strength but also the acoustic attenuation. The new scatteringmodel is validated by comparing with the existing exact solution for certain representative finite objects. The results from this study can be applied to bioacoustic applications where the attenuation due to scattering and/or multiple scattering by zooplankton is relevant, and where this information might be used to infer the acoustic properties of live animals.
Low grazing angle bistatic sea floor scattering on the Florida Atlantic coastal shelf106(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.427923View Description Hide Description
Observations of bistatic scattering at moderate frequencies 3750 Hz, 7500 Hz, and 15 000 Hz and low grazing angles (2°–20°) are presented with a geoacoustical description of the site. Given a source–receiver separation of 80.7 m, bistatic scattering strengths in the sandy sediments at the measurement site range from −70 to −15 dB. The observed bistatic scattering at low grazing angles depends primarily on the incident bearing angle. Bistatic scattering values are highest along the transect between the source and receiver. Maximum scattering strengths (−20 to −15 dB) appear 30 m from the receiver. Regions of high scattering (>−30 dB) strength are centered along the direct path between the source and receiver. The contribution of volume scattering to the observed scatteringpattern is not very clear. However, given the sandy sediments found at the site, roughness scattering is expected to be a major contributor to the observed bistatic scatteringpatterns.
Monostatic and bistatic reverberation statistics west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge106(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.427924View Description Hide Description
Monostatic and bistatic reverberation of highly resolved signals from very rough bottoms at one site is statistically analyzed.Scattering at a mean frequency of about 230 Hz from a large number of bottom footprints is considered. The reverberation envelope is found to be non-Rayleigh, with the degree of departure from Rayleigh dependent upon the bottom grazing angle for two cases considered, and 40°, and upon the bistatic angle in the entire range, to 180°. These rough bottom observations can be explained by adopting a continuous scatteringmodel having a Rayleigh envelope, added to a discrete scatteringmodel (arising from a small number of individual features within the sonar footprint) having a distinctly non-Rayleigh envelope. These models, plus a heuristic mechanism of self-selection within the discrete scatteringmodel, arguably explain the observed angle dependence of the reverberation statistics.
The underwater sounds produced by impacting snowflakes106(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.427925View Description Hide Description
In 1985, Scrimger [Nature 318, 647 (1985)] reported measurements of noise levels significantly above the ambient level for snow falling on a quiet freshwater lake. He examined only the time-averaged sound levels and did not report measurements of individual snowflake impacts. Subsequently, the noise produced by individual and multiple snowflake impacts was examined for a number of different snowfalls. The radiated acoustic signalsgenerated by the impact of individual snowflakes upon a body of water have a remarkable similarity to each other and differ principally in the frequency of the emitted sound wave. The acoustic signal of a snowflake impact thus generates a characteristic signature for snowfall that is clearly distinct from other forms of precipitation noise. Various aspects of this signature suggest that the radiated acoustic waveform from a snowflake impacting with water is due to the entrainment of a gas bubble into the liquid, and the subsequent oscillation of this bubble as it establishes its equilibrium state. Various scenarios are presented for bubble entrainment and approximations to the amplitude of the radiated signal and the acoustic waveform are obtained.


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Given a string column with a value similar to
/123/12/34/56/5/, what is the optimal way of querying for all the records that include the given number (
12 for example)?
The solution from top of my head is:
SELECT id FROM things WHERE things.path LIKE '%/12/%'
But AFAIK this query can't use indexes on the column due to the leading
There must be something better. What is it?
Using PostgreSQL, but would prefer the solution that would work across other DBs too.


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This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
Followed by
Edited into
Spun-off from
Referenced in
rob reiner mentions spinal tap in the opening of this show
Referenced by name
Several times during the subterranean sequence all 3 hosts yell out "Hello Cleveland", "Rock'n'Roll" & "Are you ready to Rock?"
Mojo Nixon's song includes the line: "Put your amp up to 11!"
Crow: Before the dawn of time, a race of druids. Nobody knew who they were or where they came from.
"Gimmie Some Money" From This Is Spinal Tap is played in one scene where Sue Ellen is counting money.
whole band plays themselves
A Spinal Tap poster can be seen in Milhouse's bedroom.
The constantly dying sound man pays homage to the constantly dying drummer of the rock band Spinal Tap, the subjects of the first mockumentary.
Crow (as Nigel Tufnel): "You see, it goes all the way to eleven."
Film is in the same mockumentary spirit but with a rap group instead of a heavy metal band.
Crow: (as Artie Fufkin) You see this butt? Kick this butt.
Mentioned by Lenny Henry while saying goodnight
When Spinal Tap come on TV, Butt-Head says, "Woah, it's those guys from that movie!"
[sensor alarm goes off] "Oh, that's my zucchini wrapped in tin foil."
The silencer on Laura's Husband's rifle is adjustable from quiet (0) to loud (11), just like Nigel Tufnel's amplifier.
Mentioned by Crow
"Hey, it's Jeanine from 'Spinal Tap'!"
Crow and Mike (singing): "Workin' on a sex farm . . ."
Video case is shown in a video store.
A billboard in the game's first town, Onett, says "don't break the wind of change"
Megabyte turns his amp up to 11.
Phoebe says a guy dumped her because she fell asleep during Spinal Tap
Mentioned by Kurt Danielson.
"Sex Farm" is sung
Volume control on the helicopter's radio goes to 11
"Original Soundtrack by Nigal Tufnal"
Thomas starts the show with yelling "Hello Cleveland!" into the mic.
A character from this film appears.
Crow: She's got an armadillo down her trousers.
Gene Siskel mentions the movie in reference to Christopher Guest.
"Smell the Glove"
Chris Jericho does a parody of Goldberg's guided entrance and gets "lost" on the way to the ring, much like the "Hello, Cleveland" scene.
In the episode Bubblevicious, Bubbles silently goes into the Professor's lab and rotates the dial until it reaches '11' so that she can become "hardcore".
Dr. Neal Eberhardt uses the phrase "cranked up to eleven."
Poster seen in the house of the kids
"Viv Savage, Research Assistant!"
Zurg's weapon goes to eleven
Buffy: "Most magic shop owners in Sunnydale have the life expectancy of a Spinal Tap drummer."
The Who have an amplifier that goes one higher than 10.
The volume knob in the "Drag Race with Jesus" sequence goes to 11, just like Spinal Tap's.
The movie poster is seen during an interview.
Adam Buxton says Withnail & I is the movie he can watch more often than any other, over and over again and even Spinal Tap begins to pale after a while.
Before taking the stage, Velasquez yells "Hello Cleveland!"
A poster hangs in Steve's room and above his bed in the dorm. He also has several figures.
Steve has the figures and the poster hanging in his dorm room.
Steve has the figures and the poster hanging in his dorm room.
Lorelai refers to "the drummer in Spinal Tap."
Steven has the figures and the poster hanging in his dorm room.
Steven has the figures and the poster hanging in his dorm room.
The poster is hanging in the Steven's room.
Steve has the figures and the poster hanging in his dorm room.
Steven has the figures in his dorm room.
The poster is hanging in the Steven's room.
Cordelia: "You wanna wander around backstage like Spinal Tap for the next... ever?"
Steven has the figures and the poster hanging in his dorm room.
Steve has the figures and the poster hanging in his dorm room.
Steven has the figures and the poster hanging in his dorm room.
quotes lyrics from
Jason mentions it in dialogue
When comparing the Z3 and Z4, Hammond says the Z4 "is one louder" in reference to the amplifier that goes to eleven.
the inspiration for the making of.
Mentioned by name and photos.
Steven has the figures and the poster hanging in his dorm room.
Super Hans' comment about "Ties being done up to 11" is in reference to the famous "This goes to 11" scene from this film.
Somebody from the band says, "Shit Sandwhich" which is the two-word review of the Spinal Tap album Shark Sandwhich in "This is Spinal Tap"
When Shaggy and Scooby decide to be 'real detectives' they tell the others of the gang to turn the investigation up to an 11, a refernece to Nigel's famous line.
A poster on a wall refers to the Spinal Tap band as 'Stonehenge'
Listed in a program schedule.
Don't touch it! I was just pointing at it. Don't even point at it!
Gag where several clocks on wall behind Bob's boss's desk show same time instead of different time zones. This gag originated in Spinal Tap.
One of the characters who is interviewed for the documentary is named Prof. N. Tufnel Jr.
Jeremy asks a student if she's seen the film.
"You've never seen Spinal Tap?"
Angi Moss wears a "Spinal Tap" t-shirt.
Bruce Dickinson says everything on the Concorde "goes to 11".
Richard: "It goes to eleven"
There is a reference to a character "dying in a bizarre gardening accident", that is how one of Spinal Tap's drummers died.
Alice Cooper references this movie while talking about black metal.
The loading screen in "Guitar Hero" features a guitar amp with knobs that all go to 11. One loading screen even satates that "11 really is louder..."
House asks if a knob goes up to 11
Olly reports that Malcolm is turning it all the way up to 11 in the lobby.
Mentioned by Martin Short
"Nigel Tufnel" is a reference to Christopher Guest's character in "This is Spinal Tap"
Referenced by name
Jeremy: "It's like Spinal Tap, the exaust goes all the way up to 11"
Makes the countdown, is talked about.
"It was like Spinal Tap."
"How big is that on the Jack Temper scale?" "11."
McKay references the infamous Spinal Tap Amps with the sentence 'It's as if whoever turned it on dialed it up to eleven and just left it there'.
when lost in the London Dungeon, someone shouts, "Hello, Cleveland!"
It is mentioned in a magazine.
Stonehenge is playing on the radio during the stakeout
Spinner mentions music being "turned up to 11."
Multiple references - volume controls throughout the game all go to 11. Spinal Tap is also featured on the soundtrack.
"Shit Sandwich"
In Evil AmiYumi, Ami and Yumi performing at Stonehenge seems to be a reference to This is Spinal Tap where Spinal Tap's song "Stonehenge" becomes awry.
Referenced by name
House mentions turning a dial "all the way to 11"
Towards the end of the movie, Spider-Man mutters: "Let's turn this up to eleven," like Christopher Guest's character and his infamous 'eleven' amp.
After the funk guitar track is laid down, someone says "this one goes to 11."
"Finally found your 11"
The Nerd - "All I have is a two word review: Shit Shark".
The Doctor says "We need to turn this up to 11" as he uses the Sonic Screwdriver to amplify a pipe organ he's playing to defeat the mutated Professor Lazarus.
Adam sets the police bullhorn on eleven
When Shaun plays the electric guitar, his amplifier "goes to 11".
When you choose the "Audio" menu, the three options can all be turned up to eleven, just like the famous gag in the film "This Is Spinal Tap.
In "Weclome Back", Homestar's black and green ribcage shirt refers to this movie, in which Nigel Tufnel wears the exact same shirt and remarks that he sleeps in it sometimes, hence, why Homestar is also wearing a nightcap and slippers and looks half-asleep when he appears
The bats take eleven hits to kill you: "Why ten, when it can take eleven?"
Tony paraphrases the "up to 11" quote
"10." "Or 11."
Close-up of an Amp that 'goes up to 11'
This is Spinal Tap was a rockumentary/mockumentary, which The Naked Brothers Band takes reference from
David Rice wears a t-shirt which has a drawing of an audio dial that goes to 11.
One of the lyrics the Maimtron quotes is "Talk about mudflaps, my girl's got 'em" from Spinal Tap's "Big Bottom".
The finale in Cleveland and their fake British accents mimicks the Spinal Tap Cleveland concert
The Critic mentions doing "top 11", because he wanted to go a step beyond that
During his inspirational speech, Augie says "Let's turn this shit up to eleven!"
"That's when the doll got turned to 11"
"Hello Cleveland!" Enough said.
The "What's wrong with being sexy?" response after someone calling something sexist is from This is Spinal Tap
"It does tend to underestimate the hugeness."
Critic compares the video to Spinal Tap without the humor, Nerd even quotes one of the reviews of one of Spinal Tap's albums
The Critic mentions doing "top 11", because he wanted to go a step beyond that
songs from film are played
DVD cover
Mark tells Dobby to turn the volume up to 11 and says to Jeremy "That's a Spinal Tap joke."
Regarding their search for a successor to Ziva, Tony tells his interrogator, "Might be a little easier to find a new drummer for Spinal Tap."
"I turn everything up to 11."
Reference to contestant Michael McKean in category title "Big Bottom"
The dials on Marshall amplifiers typically have a number range from zero to ten reference to the dials on his amps all go to eleven from the film.
Horn Dog's Formula 4-11 (It cleans one better! It goes to 11!)
Mentioned in Harry Shearer's introduction
Amplifier marked to 11
Subject of a $400 clue in the category "Movies by Quote"
"1 to 10, what do you think?" "I think it's an 11"
Holly J. tells Stüdz to "turn it up to eleven."
Tom says that his father has dialed the Jewish up to eleven.
Mentioned i dialog
Included in a $10,000 question
Spinal tap inspired the director to make the film as a mocumentary so there are a few references in the film. the director has a jacket similar to one in spinal tap, is holding a cricket ball in one scene and gets the scale of the robot confused as with stone henge in Tap.
The drill sergeant shouts, "Take it up to 11!"
James's question, "How much more black can this be?" is a reference to a similar line from "This Is Spinal Tap".
Mentioned in Harry Shearer's introduction
Bret mentions the 12 foot/12 inch problem from Spinal Tap
the "11" comment
Ed mentions Spinal Tap
In a segment on Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Bianca Dye describes it as "kind of like the Spinal Tap of sports movies".
The Katayanagi Twins' amps go up to eleven in Japanese
In DxD, Kate has a tattoo on her shoulder of the Stonehenge napkin drawing from Spinal Tap.
Michael says, "Turn it up to 11!" and incorrectly references it as "Spinal Cord."
Steve: "amp up to 11"
"She's an 11"
"Scale of 1 to 10? 11."
"up to 11"
"Goodnight, Cleveland!"
Spinal Tap mentioned
Hans says, "Set their voltage collars to 11!"
Mentioned by Stephen Smith.
Title mentioned by Adam Carolla
"set to 11"
"Turn mine up to 11"
"11" mentioned in reference to "a scale of 1-10"
Players can earn an achievement called "These Go To Eleven" by reaching level 11.
Chang mimics Nigel Tufnel's facial expressions during keytar solo.
Melanie mentions "that Stonehenge bit from 'Spinal Tap'."
The Doctor says they are at 11 out of 10
Agent Blake says, "If all he wants is peace, having an [ear] implant is like having a speaker that goes to 11."
Abby tells Gibbs "... I just think that my sensitivity knobs have been turned up to eleven ever since the big kaboom."
"1 to 10?" "11."
when Davis says that it's a thin line between genius and stupidity, Paul Sanchez points out that this is from "Spinal Tap".
like Spinal Tap, Fraktus get lost backstage on their way to a performance
Mentioned a woman is an 11
"Way past 11"
"11 out of 10" mentioned
Player: "[Christopher Guest] plays guitar!"
Jenna says something is an "11"
"Up to 11"
During soundcheck, Velasquez's guitar was briefly picking up radio interference, which made the sound tech ask "Did you rent your rig from Tufnel?".
James says the tach on the Singer 911 goes to 11 in reference to Spinal Tap
"Yeah, Spinal Tap style."
mentioned once
11 mentioned out of a rating from 1 to 10
Bill Maher refers to Rob Reiner as being the director of 'This Is Spinal Tap' in his introduction.
"Going to 11"
Mentioned by Osborne as a favorite "comedy" film.
The video store clerk wears a Spinal Tap t-shirt
Mentioned by Danny.
Jane Lynch mentions this movie by name during the game In Other Words
Lassiter encourages Shawn and Gus to "kick it up to 11" with their "antics of stupidity."
Brian references the film and talks about turning it "up to 11."
Jimmy lists some of Rob Reiner's work
title mentioned
Mentioned in dialogue
quotes "Up to 11" and references the movie by name
Clive, "Hello. Cleveland."
Film is referenced ("Amped up to 11")
"Scale of 1 to 10?" "Eleventy."
"...and their Stonehenge set was too small..."
Dr. Hibbert says that Homer needs a spinal tap, and Homer replies, "Please be the band!"
James mentioning first knowing Rob Reiner from this
"An 11" (out of 10)
Gilda tells Vaughn Du Clark that their lab technicians are replaced like drummers for Spinal Tap.
Jenny is asked a question about the number that the volume on Nigel Tufnel's amp goes up to in her Cash Builder round.
Mentioned by Tina Fey
quotes are referenced
Donald cranks up the power supply voltage on the RV all the way up to 11.
a clue and correct response in "College Knowledge" category refer to the film's line about Boston not being a big college town
mentioned by Adnan Virk
Michael McKean talks about his earlier movie, and Jimmy shows a still
"Phantom of the Opera" is described as a biography with fictitious true events, similar to "Spinal Tap"
The panel talks about the movie.
Chapter reference, "This Is Spinal Snap".
Spiderman says that his abilities go all the way to 11.
Michael Ian Black mentions the movie by name.
Mentioned by Denis Leary
Featured in
This film is #29 on the list.
Footage from this film was edited into this mini-series.
features clips from this film
Clips are shown.
Steph and Jeff watch this at the end of the episode, and the audio can be heard.
clips are shown to illustrate the best airport scenes in movies
Some clips from this movie are shown when it is the subject of a segment.
clips featured to illustrate the best movie hotel scenes
clips shown
Anvil's #4 Favorite Film.
Anvil's #4 Favorite Movies
A fragment is shown.
A fragment is shown.
clip used from movie featuring Christopher Guest and Michael McKean
A clip is shown.
clips are shown during Roger's "Great Movies" segment
Clips used in review.
A fragment is shown.
This Is Spinal Tap (1984) is #7.
Footage shown.
Clips seen and discussed
Spoofed in
The mockumentary format of this movie.
The radio commercial for Dormatron mentions turning it up to 11.
In the opening credits concert footage, one of the bears turns up an amplifier to "12."
The band love fist is a big spoof of spinal tap
Mike Teevee's song features Oompa Loompas spoofing Spinal Tap in concert.
Jumba turns the volume up to "11".
Drummer explodes after you successfully finish "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight". A parody of one of the most famous scenes from the film.
Pat the NES Punk says that "Nintendo World Championships" "can't be played, never", spoofing a line from "This is Spinal Tap".
Tamsin says to Bo, "I need you cranked to 11".


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